EP0303936B1 - Méthode et appareil d'enregistrement et de reproduction optique - Google Patents

Méthode et appareil d'enregistrement et de reproduction optique Download PDF

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EP0303936B1
EP0303936B1 EP88112894A EP88112894A EP0303936B1 EP 0303936 B1 EP0303936 B1 EP 0303936B1 EP 88112894 A EP88112894 A EP 88112894A EP 88112894 A EP88112894 A EP 88112894A EP 0303936 B1 EP0303936 B1 EP 0303936B1
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Toshimitsu Kaku
Kazuo Shigematsu
Hisataka Sugiyama
Takeshi Maeda
Masahiro Takasago
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    • G11B7/00—Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor
    • G11B7/08—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers
    • G11B7/09—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track following
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  • This invention relates to a method and apparatus using a light spot for recording and reproducing information on and from a track on a recording medium, and more particularly to an optical information retrieving system which minimizes an adverse effect of a track offset that may occur during recording and improves the characteristics of a tracking servo system at the time of recording.
  • the present invention is preferably applicable to a write-one-read-many type optical disk apparatus capable of additional recording of information.
  • Such a write-once-read-many type optical disk apparatus can record a large amount of information on an optical disk by directing a light spot from an optical head toward the optical disk and locally fusing a recording film by the heat of the light spot thereby forming pits in the recording film.
  • the write-once-read-many type optical disk apparatus has such a problem that, depending on the characteristics of the optical head and optical disk, information cannot be normally recorded when a track offset occurs during recording information.
  • EP-A-0 072 723 discloses an optical recording and reproducing apparatus and method with the features included in the first part of claim 1 and that of claim 5. Tracking is performed with the aid of extracting pulses that have a pulse width equal to the writing pulse width, so that writing pulse parts contained in the modulated signal as well as in the detected signal are suppressed during the recording of information.
  • a track offset appears when an optical head or an optical disk has not satisfactory characteristics. That is, such a track offset occurs when an unbalance occurs in writing pulse parts reflected from the optical disk at the time of information recording. Therefore, when the reflected unbalanced writing pulse parts contained in the tracking servo signal at the time of information recording are extracted, with the timing of writing pulses, by means of extracting pulses having a pulse width determined while taking into account the frequency characteristics of the tracking servo signal, the track offset appearing at the time of information recording can be minimized, and the performance of the tracking servo system can be greatly improved.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the optical recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows schematically the structure of one form of the light detector employed in the present invention for detecting deviation of the light spot from a track and for detecting an information signal.
  • Figs. 3(a) to 3(f) are waveform diagrams for illustrating the operation of the apparatus of the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a circuit diagram showing the structure of one form of the gain change-over circuit employed in the present invention.
  • Fig. 5 is a circuit diagram showing the structure of one form of the writing pulse parts extracting circuit employed in the present invention.
  • Fig. 1 shows the structure of a write-once-read-many type optical disk apparatus which can record and reproduce a large amount of information on and from an optical disk by, for example, forming pits.
  • a light beam emitted from a laser diode 1 is turned into a parallel beam by a coupling lens 2, and the parallel beam passes through a polarization prism 3.
  • the light beam passed through the polarization prism 3 is linearly polarized.
  • This linearly polarized light passes through a quarter wave plate 4 to be turned into circularly polarized light.
  • the circularly polarized light After passing through a galveno mirror 5, the circularly polarized light is converged into a light spot having a diameter of about 1 ⁇ m by a focusing lens 6 mounted on a voice coil motor, and the minute light spot is focused on a recording medium 7 formed on a disk plate 8 to constitute an optical disk.
  • An amorphous Te-Se alloy is well known as the material of the recording medium 7 of the optical disk used in the write-once-read-many type optical disk apparatus.
  • a polycarbonate plate is most frequently used to provide the disk plate 8 having the recording medium 7, from the viewpoints of cost and mass-productivity.
  • a writing pulse signal is generated from a signal processing circuit 9 provided for management and modulation/demodulation of data to be recorded.
  • the writing pulse signal is applied to a laser driver 10, and the laser driver 10 causes high power oscillation of the laser diode 1 in a pulsating fashion.
  • the heat of the laser beam emitted from the laser diode 1 acts to locally fuse the recording medium 7 to form pits in the recording medium 7 thereby recording the information on the optical disk.
  • the light reflected from the recording medium 7 passes through the focusing lens 6 and the galvano mirror 5 again and passes then through the quarter wave plate 4 to be turned into linearly polarized light from circularly polarized light. Then, the optical path of the light is diverted by the polarization prism 3. After passing through a lens 11, the diverted light is divided into two light beams by a half prism 12. The light beam reflected by the half prism 12 is incident on a first light detector 13 disposed on the upstream side of the focal point of the lens 11, while the light beam transmitted through the half prism 12 is incident on a second light detector 14 disposed on the downstream side of the focal point of the lens 11. The first and second light detectors 13 and 14 have the same shape. Fig.
  • Light detecting elements A1 and A2 disposed at both ends respectively are used for the purpose of focusing error detection (AF), while intermediate light detecting elements T1 and T2 are used for the dual purposes of tracking error detection (TR) and information signal detection (RD).
  • AF focusing error detection
  • TR tracking error detection
  • RD information signal detection
  • the light beams of shapes different from each other depending on the direction of the de-focus are incident on the first and second light detectors 13 and 14, and these light detectors 13 and 14 receive different quantities of light respectively.
  • the operation of the focusing servo in the apparatus of the present invention is such that, after the outputs of the light detecting elements A1 and A2 of each of the first and second light detectors 13 and 14 are added, the resultant outputs of the first and second light detectors 13 and 14 are applied to a differential amplifier 15 to derive an AF error signal from the differential amplifier 15, and the AF error signal is applied to an AF driver circuit 16, so that the focusing lens 6 mounted on the voice coil motor can follow up the vertical tilting movement of the disk plate 8.
  • the information reproducing operation in the apparatus of the present invention is such that the outputs of the light detecting elements T1 and T2 of the second light detector 14 are added to obtain a reproduced signal representing the quantities of light reflected from the recording medium 7 depending on the presence or absence of pits on the recording medium 7, and, after amplifying the reproduced signal by an amplifier 17, the output signal of the amplifier 17 is applied to the signal processing circuit 9 in which the signal is converted into a pulse signal so as to demodulate the recorded data.
  • the push-pull method is used for the purpose of tracking error detection.
  • the light detecting elements T1 and T2 of the first light detector 13 are disposed in such a relation that a track (a guide groove) formed on the disk plate 8 is located between the light detecting elements T1 and T2.
  • An unbalance occurs in the diffracted light beam when the light spot deviates from the center of the track, and the difference between the outputs of the light detecting elements T1 and T2 in such a case is detected by a second differential amplifier 22 to obtain a tracking servo signal.
  • This tracking servo signal is applied to a TR driver circuit 23 which drives the glavano mirror 5, so that the light spot can follow up the center of the track.
  • Fig. 3(a) shows a writing pulse signal driving the laser diode 1, and the laser beam is intensity modulated according to information to be recorded.
  • reflected light beams as, for example, shown in Figs. 3(b) and 3(c) are detected by the light detecting elements T1 and T2 of the first light detector 13 respectively.
  • the differential amplifier 22 When, in this case, the frequency characteristics of the TR detection system are ideal, the differential amplifier 22 generates an output waveform as shown by the solid lines in Fig. 3(d). However, because the actual frequency characteristics of the TR detection system are sufficiently low as compared to the recording frequency, the output of the differential amplifier 22 has an average level as shown by the dotted line in Fig. 3(d), and this level appears as a track offset ⁇ TR. In order to minimize such a track offset appearing during the information recording operation, the present invention provides means for extracting, from the TR detection system, the writing pulse parts which are the source of occurrence of the track offset. Amplifiers 18 and 19 shown in Fig. 1 are provided for changing over between the gain in the write mode and that in the read mode.
  • Amplifiers 20 and 21 shown in Fig. 1 are provided for extracting the writing pulse parts.
  • the laser diode 1 makes high power pulse oscillation, and the quantity of reflected light increases. Therefore, it is necessary to change over the gain of each inverting amplifier OP1 so that the gain of the TR detection system can be maintained constant.
  • Fig. 5 shows the practical structure of the amplifiers 20 and 21.
  • the outputs of the amplifiers 18 and 19 are applied to the amplifiers 20 and 21 respectively, and a timing pulse generating circuit 24 shown in Fig. 1 applies an extracting pulse signal to the amplifiers 20 and 21 to extract the writing pulse parts contained in the outputs of the amplifiers 18 and 19. Extraction of the writing pulse parts will be described with reference to Fig. 3 again.
  • Fig. 3(e) shows the waveform of the extracting pulse signal applied from the timing pulse generating circuit 24. It will be seen in Fig. 3(e) that the pulse width of each extracting pulse is such that the pulse width of each writing pulse is suitably extended taking into account the frequency characteristic of the TR detection system. Referring to Fig.
  • the extracting pulse is applied to an open-collector output TTL gate TG (for example, that sold under the trade name of SN7406) in each of the amplifiers 20 and 21, and, when the writing pulse is present, the input of the TTL gate TG is rendered null to ground the connection point between resistors R5 and R6 so as to extract the corresponding writing pulse part.
  • TTL gate TG for example, that sold under the trade name of SN7406
  • the track offset ⁇ TR is eliminated as shown in Fig. 3(f), and the stability of the TR servo system in the write mode can be greatly improved. Since, in this case, the quantity of reflected light is lowered by a proportion corresponding to the duty factor of the extracting pulse, the gain Gw of the amplifiers 18 and 19 in the write mode must be selected while taking the above fact into account.
  • the TTL gate is used to extract the writing pulse parts.
  • a sample/hold circuit including means such as an analog switch is used to hold the TR detection signal for a period of time corresponding to the pulse width of the writing pulse parts by application of the extracting pulse signal.
  • writing pulse parts are extracted from the TR detection system for a period of time corresponding to the writing pulse width, so that the tracking servo performance can be greatly improved.

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  1. Dispositif d'enregistrement et de reproduction optique comportant
       des moyens (1-6) pour éclairer un support d'enregistrement (7) avec un spot lumineux,
       un système de détection (11-14) pour détecter la lumière réfléchie par le support d'enregistrement (7) pour extraire un signal électrique de la lumière réfléchie,
       un circuit de traitement d'information (9) pour moduler l'intensité du spot lumineux conformément à des impulsions d'écriture pour enregistrer une information sur le support d'enregistrement (7), et pour utiliser le signal électrique afin de reproduire l'information depuis le support d'enregistrement, et
       un circuit (22, 23) pour effectuer une opération d'asservissement de suivi en fonction dudit signal électrique et comprenant un circuit d'extraction (20, 21) relié à des moyens (24) pour appliquer des impulsions d'extraction, de sorte que les parties d'impulsions d'écriture contenues dans ledit signal électrique sont supprimées durant l'enregistrement d'information, caractérisé en ce que lesdites impulsions d'extraction possèdent une largeur d'impulsion s'étendant au-delà de celle des impulsions d'écriture.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la largeur d'impulsion desdites impulsions d'extraction est déterminée en tenant compte des caractéristiques de fréquence du système d'asservissement de suivi.
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit circuit d'asservissement de suivi comporte un circuit (18, 19) pour modifier le gain du circuit d'asservissement de suivi selon que l'information est enregistrée ou reproduite.
  4. Utilisation du dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3 pour enregistrer et reproduire une information sur/depuis un disque optique.
  5. Procédé d'enregistrement et de reproduction optique comprenant les étapes consistant à :
       diriger un spot lumineux vers un support d'enregistrement,
       moduler l'intensité du spot lumineux conformément à des impulsions d'écriture pour enregistrer une information sur ledit support d'enregistrement, et détecter la lumière réfléchie par ledit support d'enregistrement pour reproduire une information à partir de celle-ci ; dans lequel une opération d'asservissement de suivi est effectuée en fonction d'un signal électrique détecté à partir de ladite lumière réfléchie en appliquant des impulsions d'extraction de sorte que les parties d'impulsions d'écriture contenues dans ledit signal électrique sont supprimées durant l'enregistrement de l'information, caractérisé en ce que lesdites impulsions d'extraction présentent une largeur d'impulsion s'étendant au-delà de celle des impulsions d'écriture.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5, dans lequel la largeur d'impulsion desdites impulsions d'extraction est déterminée en tenant compte des caractéristiques de fréquence du système d'asservissement de suivi.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le gain d'un circuit effectuant ladite opération d'asservissement de suivi est modifié selon que l'information est enregistrée ou reproduite.
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